[For Hegel<nowiki>]</nowiki> it is the ethical task of the individual to transcend particularity and conform to the universal, to exhibit as a matter… - Merold Westphal
" "[For Hegel<nowiki>]</nowiki> it is the ethical task of the individual to transcend particularity and conform to the universal, to exhibit as a matter of character and behavior the values expressed in the laws and customs of his or her people. The problem is that the universal… is itself without moral obligations as soon as it has been absolutized. As divine, its will is law and its deeds are good.
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Merold Westphal (born 1940) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus at Fordham University.
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In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.
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